On Jan 8, 2008 9:01 AM, Harald Armin Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Not likely to change in the future, no.  Slony uses triggers to manage the
> > changed rows.  We can't fire triggers on large object events, so there's no
> > way for Slony to know what happened.
>
> that leads me to a question I often wanted to ask:
>
> is there any reason to create NEW PostgreSQL databases using Large
> Objects, now that there is bytea and TOAST? (besides of legacy needs)
>
> as much as I read, they take special care in dump/restore; force the
> use of some special APIs on creating, do not work with Slony ....

The primary advantage of large objects is that you can read like byte
by byte, like a file.

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